Woah. A Philadelphia transgender man recently gave birth to a baby girl halfway through his gender transition, according to a new report by British tabloid, the Mirror.
Born female, Kayden Coleman had been living as a man for nearly a decade when he discovered he was pregnant.
“I never thought about getting pregnant. Because of the male hormones, I didn’t think it was a possibility,” he told the Mirror. “It was definitely a surprise.”
Coleman’s doctors had him discontinue his hormone regimen as a part of a preparation for a mastectomy, part of the gender reassignment process. Coleman the procedure requires taking a break for six weeks.
Coleman said a few months after quitting the regimen, he began to feel strange.
“One day my back was killing me,” he told the Mirror. “(Coleman’s partner) Elijah was going to give me a massage, so I lay on my front on the bed. It felt like there was a pillow under my stomach but there was no pillow.”
The two joked about taking a pregnancy test, but lo and behold, the test came up positive. Upon going to his physician’s office, Colman found out he was 21 weeks pregnant.
“I was shocked. It took a while to process it,” he said.
The development forced Colman to come out as transgender to many people around him, including his partner’s family.
“It was such a personal thing that I felt if Kayden wanted them to know he should tell them himself,” Elijah said. “But when we found out Kayden was pregnant we knew we had to tell them. How could we explain the baby when she popped up after a couple of months?”
By all accounts, Colman had a fairly conventional pregnancy and eventually gave birth to a daughter the couple named Azaelia.
“Even when I first held her it hadn’t sunk in that she was mine, so I didn’t really feel much. But I knew things would never be the same again. I was so happy to finally see her face,” Coleman said.
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